A Supertaster's Sanctuary

OK, so I promised this several weeks ago. You should know by now that blogging on my end never follows the schedule that the rest of my life routinely requires. I just have to say that good intentions ought to get me credit. Yet, imagine finding out in May that you will be teaching not 1, not 2, but 3 courses at a local university beginning in mid-August AND between then you have to deliver a written module for an academic publication! Yikes. Thankfully I'm never not lacking for rising to a challenge. So, when it was time to host a dinner party the end of June (that we'd had on the books for well over a month), I had to go to my well-organized files for ideas and inspiration. Here is where I am so glad that over the years I have spent the time on tearing and filing. About 6 years ago when the issues of Bon Appetit , Food & Wine , Real Simple and Southern Living were piling up in every corner of my pantry, closet, and kitchen, I knew I had to come up with a plan. Sure, t...

How does one begin to say "I'm sorry" for letting finishing a master's degree, operating a separate small business, moving from Texas to Colorado, and Pinterest keep me from blogging? Well, there's no easy way ever to ask forgiveness except to eat the proverbial "crow" and get it over with. So, dear friends, I'm back to sharing my adventures in the kitchen with you--hopefully on a regular basis--so please forgive me for not sharing sooner. If you know me at all, it's not for a lack of cooking--no! no! What I have allowed to keep me from sitting down and typing up the goodies are silly things like "other bloggers' photos are so much prettier than mine" and "oh, let me just troll through Pinterest for a few minutes" and even "now where did I file those photos I took of that recipe?" So, if you can live through the basics of my ramblings and the non-professional photos, I think you'll still glean s...